The Alaska Department of Fish and Game ordered an emergency closure of the Haines area moose hunt this week, citing concerns about exceeding the department’s management objective of 20-25 bulls.
As of Wednesday, 24 moose had been taken in the Haines area’s Tier II subsistence hunt, two of which were sublegal. Of the 22 legal moose, four met the spike-fork configuration, 12 had three or more brow tines, and six had racks more than 50…